Last night I had a dream in which my previous life was revealed. I was a naturalist/explorer with a penchant for obscure martial arts, exotic food, and jungle-enshrouded cities. This revelation explains everything, from my minor obsession for preserved specimens (some research reveals the octopus-in-a-jar I recently obtained from a private seller originates from the South Seas, circa 1890) to my love of all things hermetic, to my Spartan workout habits involving feats of unusual strength (two-finger pushups, etc.).

But if [...]

The rain continues and my yard is turning Cambodian by way of New England. Our Dutch farm wall is surrounded by lush green hyper-growth, algae creeps along the side of our house, and insects the size of staplers cling to our window screens. Let the whiners and moaners complain about weather. I like the rain. All of it.

My short story “Simulacrum” is a finalist for DIAGRAM magazine’s Innovative Fiction Contest, which means you can find my [...]

Bio: Updated. New semi-confidential writing project: Screenplay for a major studio head, based on a 1980’s bestselling novel. I said I’d never dip my toes into the shark tank again–at least, without thinking long and hard–so I’ve thought long and hard and this time I’m bringing a cage, a spear gun, and a bucket of fresh chum. We’re hoping to get the screenplay finished by late August, just in time for school. At which point I won’t need to be [...]

Hi Micah:

As a published author do you have to deal with rejection and if so how do you do it without tearing out your hair?

Three initial points:

1. Being published does not make me rejection-proof.

2. Being published is evidence of frequent rejection.

3. I’m 35 and I still have all my hair, so why mess with a fortunate thing?

A dozen or so agents passed on my first novel. My second novel took me one year to write and three years to [...]

We have a publication date for MEMPHIS IS BURNING and that date is June of 2010, which sounds far away but really isn’t. Editing begins later this summer, then we work on the cover, and then I turn my attention to the next book.

What is that next book? Who can say. A few ideas are currently battling it out, during those fews hours every day that I’m not working on the destruction of poison ivy in our forest. My God [...]

My second novel will be on the shelves sometime within the next year. Here’s the official announcement:

Gods of Aberdeen author Micah Nathan’s MEMPHIS IS BURNING, about a recent college grad who takes a job as a driver for a mysterious old man who may or may not be a still-living Elvis, and the perilous 900 mile trip they make from Buffalo to Memphis to find his granddaughter, to Brett Valley at Three Rivers Press, by Jud Laghi at LJK Literary Management.

So [...]

My commentary on the curious influence of Lovecraft graces the pop-culture-riffic pages of Jetcomx this month–unto every generation will be borne those who hunger for batrachian horrors–and the spring ‘09 issue of Bellingham Review contains my short piece”The Love Life of Tigers.” Which shows that even when not much is going on something is going on.

What else. Sources inform me the Russian edition of Gods of Aberdeen is selling well and I have poison ivy all [...]

My John Carpenter essay is up and running on the…well, Essay page. Taken from the latest issue of everyone’s favorite cinematic mag Penny Blood. And I’ve finally posted a long-overdue Comic-Con pic:

When steampunk is done well, it makes me want to write steampunk. Anyone know the origin of these characters?

In other news, I’ve taken a very brief hiatus from Jetcomx, soon to return once I complete edits on several projects. Discussions of Winger will have to wait until then. [...]